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Friday 02/19/2021: Forgiveness
Hello everyone,
I was wondering what to write about this week and drawing a blank. So my wife and I went grocery shopping. I bought my in-law’s groceries and she bought ours. Surprisingly, we were at the store for just a half hour.
We were returning home, just two blocks from the store, when an old pickup truck crossed the double yellow line into my lane to get to his turning lane. I had to slam on the brakes to keep us out of a head on collision. We were traveling 25 mph, but still that would have been a rather bad ending to a nice shopping spree. The other driver kept on like nothing was wrong.
This self-serving act by the other driver upset and angered me. I gave him the one finger salute and called him an anal sphincter. The sudden stop caused our milk to fly forward and crush the top but not breaking the jug. My wife yelled at me for my gesture and the descriptive use of a bodily part. She was quick to point out my self-serving act of retaliation.
Thinking back on it, it was a release of excitement in a stressful situation, but it didn’t show forgiveness for my fellow person in this world. It felt good in the moment, but now I realize my anger drove me to sin against another person. I should have shown forgiveness of the Lord in the moment, but I chose to return hate for hate.
Only by recognizing my faults am I able to grow in the Lord and become the man he wants me to be.
If you have read any of my books, please leave a review on Goodreads and Amazon. The Fighting son has been out for three weeks and The Genuine Daughter is 99 cents until Sunday morning at 11:00 EST.
God bless,
Danny Mac
I was wondering what to write about this week and drawing a blank. So my wife and I went grocery shopping. I bought my in-law’s groceries and she bought ours. Surprisingly, we were at the store for just a half hour.
We were returning home, just two blocks from the store, when an old pickup truck crossed the double yellow line into my lane to get to his turning lane. I had to slam on the brakes to keep us out of a head on collision. We were traveling 25 mph, but still that would have been a rather bad ending to a nice shopping spree. The other driver kept on like nothing was wrong.
This self-serving act by the other driver upset and angered me. I gave him the one finger salute and called him an anal sphincter. The sudden stop caused our milk to fly forward and crush the top but not breaking the jug. My wife yelled at me for my gesture and the descriptive use of a bodily part. She was quick to point out my self-serving act of retaliation.
Thinking back on it, it was a release of excitement in a stressful situation, but it didn’t show forgiveness for my fellow person in this world. It felt good in the moment, but now I realize my anger drove me to sin against another person. I should have shown forgiveness of the Lord in the moment, but I chose to return hate for hate.
Only by recognizing my faults am I able to grow in the Lord and become the man he wants me to be.
If you have read any of my books, please leave a review on Goodreads and Amazon. The Fighting son has been out for three weeks and The Genuine Daughter is 99 cents until Sunday morning at 11:00 EST.
God bless,
Danny Mac
Friday 02/27/2021: Fettuccini Alfredo
Hello everyone,
I am a day late writing this blog. Life happens and my upper back has been giving me grieve. It is no fun to write when your shoulders are stiff as a board. Feeling better today and I can provide you with some insight into my life.
When still in high school, I went to a friend’s house. His mother was making Fettuccini Alfredo. Already into cooking, I watched carefully as she made the sauce.
Ingredients:
Butter 1 stick (1/4 pound)
AP flour 2 ounces
Heavy cream 1 quart
Parmesan cheese 2 cups
Salt and pepper to taste
In a sauce pan melt half a stick (2 oz.) of butter under medium low heat until it stops sizzling. Add the flour and cook until a nutty smell comes to your nose. Add the heavy cream and bring to temperature. Be patient and do not turn up the heat, it is a delicate sauce and breaks easily. The sauce will thicken slightly and coat evenly on the back of a spoon. Gradually add the parmesan in four helpings bringing back to temperature between each helping. Add the remaining butter 1/8” pat at a time, making sure each pat completely melts before adding the next. Add salt and pepper to taste. Please note, grind your own pepper on the finest setting. You don’t want to see black flakes in the sauce. (You can kick the sauce up a notch by grating several strokes of nutmeg into it.)
Your fettuccine should be done soon after the sauce. Serve with garlic bread and a tossed salad of greens.
This is not a recipe for the faint of heart. It is rich and thick and carries a lot of fat in it. I would pair with a white crisp wine to clean the palate as you eat. If you are a beer drinking think IPA or lighter lager.
If you have read any of my books, please leave a review on Goodreads and Amazon. The Fighting son has been out for four weeks and goes on sale next Sunday, March 6th.
God bless,
Danny Mac
I am a day late writing this blog. Life happens and my upper back has been giving me grieve. It is no fun to write when your shoulders are stiff as a board. Feeling better today and I can provide you with some insight into my life.
When still in high school, I went to a friend’s house. His mother was making Fettuccini Alfredo. Already into cooking, I watched carefully as she made the sauce.
Ingredients:
Butter 1 stick (1/4 pound)
AP flour 2 ounces
Heavy cream 1 quart
Parmesan cheese 2 cups
Salt and pepper to taste
In a sauce pan melt half a stick (2 oz.) of butter under medium low heat until it stops sizzling. Add the flour and cook until a nutty smell comes to your nose. Add the heavy cream and bring to temperature. Be patient and do not turn up the heat, it is a delicate sauce and breaks easily. The sauce will thicken slightly and coat evenly on the back of a spoon. Gradually add the parmesan in four helpings bringing back to temperature between each helping. Add the remaining butter 1/8” pat at a time, making sure each pat completely melts before adding the next. Add salt and pepper to taste. Please note, grind your own pepper on the finest setting. You don’t want to see black flakes in the sauce. (You can kick the sauce up a notch by grating several strokes of nutmeg into it.)
Your fettuccine should be done soon after the sauce. Serve with garlic bread and a tossed salad of greens.
This is not a recipe for the faint of heart. It is rich and thick and carries a lot of fat in it. I would pair with a white crisp wine to clean the palate as you eat. If you are a beer drinking think IPA or lighter lager.
If you have read any of my books, please leave a review on Goodreads and Amazon. The Fighting son has been out for four weeks and goes on sale next Sunday, March 6th.
God bless,
Danny Mac
Friday 03/19/2021: Anniversary Message
Hello everyone,
Twenty-seven years ago today, I married the woman God provided to me. That morning started as any normal day. Then I found myself standing at the alter waiting for my bride to come aisle. It was at that moment the full impact that my life was changing hit me and turned me into a nervous wreck. We held hands as the preacher opened the ceremony. When he turned for just a moment I heard, “You’re crushing my hands!” in a soft meek voice.
Looking down at my hands to saw them tightly bounding my love’s hands. Her fingers appeared crunch together as one unit held in a tight vice grip. The video shows her shaking her hands trying to get the blood back into them.
We went on a honeymoon and settled into an apartment within a week. The following Monday, we both started the spring quarter of college. We quickly became accustomed to each other and one day coming around the corner I asked if she needed anything. In her relaxed state, my voice startled her into jumping practically out of her skin. Her face shined with brightness and amazement. It touched me deep inside.
A week later, while she was in the shower, I managed to sneak up on her a scare her again. The astonishment shined in her again. This became a regular thing of surprising her in the shower. A couple years later we moved to a new town and required a new shower curtain. She scrutinized the different ones stopping on a clear one. “Don’t get that one” was my request.
“Why” asked her.
“Get the opaque one because it is easier to sneak up on you.” My darling bride scoffed at my request. A young woman standing next to us perusing the towels states out loud, “Why do men do that?” I had no answer for her that day.
Then earlier this week, Tammy exited the bedroom as I approached from the other direction. She popped out the door and I was right there to her amazing astonishment. Her face lit up like it did the first time twenty-seven years ago. As she laughed with fright, she slapped my arm and said, “I need to put a bell on you.”
So, to the young lady’s question all those years before, that is why men sneak up on the loving bride to scare them. We want to capture the innocence of youth and see our loving wives in full of amazement and wonder. She appeared like the day I said, “I do.”
If you have read any of my books, please leave a review on Goodreads and Amazon.
God bless,
Danny Mac
Twenty-seven years ago today, I married the woman God provided to me. That morning started as any normal day. Then I found myself standing at the alter waiting for my bride to come aisle. It was at that moment the full impact that my life was changing hit me and turned me into a nervous wreck. We held hands as the preacher opened the ceremony. When he turned for just a moment I heard, “You’re crushing my hands!” in a soft meek voice.
Looking down at my hands to saw them tightly bounding my love’s hands. Her fingers appeared crunch together as one unit held in a tight vice grip. The video shows her shaking her hands trying to get the blood back into them.
We went on a honeymoon and settled into an apartment within a week. The following Monday, we both started the spring quarter of college. We quickly became accustomed to each other and one day coming around the corner I asked if she needed anything. In her relaxed state, my voice startled her into jumping practically out of her skin. Her face shined with brightness and amazement. It touched me deep inside.
A week later, while she was in the shower, I managed to sneak up on her a scare her again. The astonishment shined in her again. This became a regular thing of surprising her in the shower. A couple years later we moved to a new town and required a new shower curtain. She scrutinized the different ones stopping on a clear one. “Don’t get that one” was my request.
“Why” asked her.
“Get the opaque one because it is easier to sneak up on you.” My darling bride scoffed at my request. A young woman standing next to us perusing the towels states out loud, “Why do men do that?” I had no answer for her that day.
Then earlier this week, Tammy exited the bedroom as I approached from the other direction. She popped out the door and I was right there to her amazing astonishment. Her face lit up like it did the first time twenty-seven years ago. As she laughed with fright, she slapped my arm and said, “I need to put a bell on you.”
So, to the young lady’s question all those years before, that is why men sneak up on the loving bride to scare them. We want to capture the innocence of youth and see our loving wives in full of amazement and wonder. She appeared like the day I said, “I do.”
If you have read any of my books, please leave a review on Goodreads and Amazon.
God bless,
Danny Mac
Friday 04/16/2021: Revealing Story
Hello everyone,
I am sorry for missing last week’s blog. I had an inspiration and worked on chapter 19 all day and Saturday. Since my back limits the time I spend in front of the computer, I decided to skip last week.
The revelation for chapter 19 came to me in a dream and woke up Friday morning wanting to put it to paper. This chapter reveals where the Flying People gain their power. This crosses over to Speculative Fiction as it proposes an alternative to our present existence. It exposes the Garden of Eden as a dimension set up on Earth by God to raise Adam and Eve. When they fall from grace, God provides half human and half angel beings to teach them how to live outside the garden. The Hamsia can fly out of the dimension to help people cope with animals that were friendly in the Garden, but will eat them outside the dimension rift.
The whole premise jazzed me and was eager to start writing it. I spent way too much time at the computer on Friday which left my back sore and tingling down my legs. However, it was worth it since this explains the power of the Flyers. I am glad to sacrifice my body for a day to bring interesting plots to my readers.
I am hoping to have the rough draft finished in a couple weeks. Then the arduous task of cleaning it up begins. This last several months as it consist of five or more rewrites getting to where I like it. I am hoping to have the book to market sometime in the fall or early winter.
If you have read any of my books, please leave a review on Goodreads and Amazon.
God bless,
Danny Mac
I am sorry for missing last week’s blog. I had an inspiration and worked on chapter 19 all day and Saturday. Since my back limits the time I spend in front of the computer, I decided to skip last week.
The revelation for chapter 19 came to me in a dream and woke up Friday morning wanting to put it to paper. This chapter reveals where the Flying People gain their power. This crosses over to Speculative Fiction as it proposes an alternative to our present existence. It exposes the Garden of Eden as a dimension set up on Earth by God to raise Adam and Eve. When they fall from grace, God provides half human and half angel beings to teach them how to live outside the garden. The Hamsia can fly out of the dimension to help people cope with animals that were friendly in the Garden, but will eat them outside the dimension rift.
The whole premise jazzed me and was eager to start writing it. I spent way too much time at the computer on Friday which left my back sore and tingling down my legs. However, it was worth it since this explains the power of the Flyers. I am glad to sacrifice my body for a day to bring interesting plots to my readers.
I am hoping to have the rough draft finished in a couple weeks. Then the arduous task of cleaning it up begins. This last several months as it consist of five or more rewrites getting to where I like it. I am hoping to have the book to market sometime in the fall or early winter.
If you have read any of my books, please leave a review on Goodreads and Amazon.
God bless,
Danny Mac
Friday 04/30/2021: Don’t Break Rules
Hello everyone,
Trash day at our house is Friday. The truck comes by and picks up our trash at 10:30. Sometimes they come early, so we try to have it out by 8:00.
Five Fridays ago, the snow filled the 150 foot drive with two inches of snow with more falling. At the time, my wife and I took turns every other Friday. This was her Friday and she made a new rule, “On wet Fridays I take the trash to the street and on sunny Fridays she will take the trash to the road.”
“So you are saying if the sun shines you will take it and if it is not shining I take it?”
“Yes, that is the new rule.”
I smiled at her and said “Okay” and took the trash out for the second week in a row in the snow.
I load the trash into the wagon and haul it to the street leaving a trail of steps and wheel marks in the freshly laid snow. Then leave similar evidence on the return trip.
The next four Fridays, we have woken to bright sunshine blasting across our yard. This morning, the fourth sunny Friday in a row, I point out what a beautiful sunny morning it is. Seeing the smile on my face she asked, “What’s up?”
“It’s a sunny Friday” trying to hide by malicious compliance to her rule.
“So” says her puzzled face.
“It’s trash day”
“Oh crap. You know you could break the rule if you wanted.”
“No honey, I could never break one of your rules, especially on purpose. I am a good husband that follows his wife’s rules.”
I am surprised her eyes didn’t roll right out of her head at that statement but they did look like an old slot machine spinning about her sockets.
Men, remember never break one of your wives rule when it benefits you the most.
If you have read any of my books, please leave a review on Goodreads and Amazon.
God bless,
Danny Mac
Trash day at our house is Friday. The truck comes by and picks up our trash at 10:30. Sometimes they come early, so we try to have it out by 8:00.
Five Fridays ago, the snow filled the 150 foot drive with two inches of snow with more falling. At the time, my wife and I took turns every other Friday. This was her Friday and she made a new rule, “On wet Fridays I take the trash to the street and on sunny Fridays she will take the trash to the road.”
“So you are saying if the sun shines you will take it and if it is not shining I take it?”
“Yes, that is the new rule.”
I smiled at her and said “Okay” and took the trash out for the second week in a row in the snow.
I load the trash into the wagon and haul it to the street leaving a trail of steps and wheel marks in the freshly laid snow. Then leave similar evidence on the return trip.
The next four Fridays, we have woken to bright sunshine blasting across our yard. This morning, the fourth sunny Friday in a row, I point out what a beautiful sunny morning it is. Seeing the smile on my face she asked, “What’s up?”
“It’s a sunny Friday” trying to hide by malicious compliance to her rule.
“So” says her puzzled face.
“It’s trash day”
“Oh crap. You know you could break the rule if you wanted.”
“No honey, I could never break one of your rules, especially on purpose. I am a good husband that follows his wife’s rules.”
I am surprised her eyes didn’t roll right out of her head at that statement but they did look like an old slot machine spinning about her sockets.
Men, remember never break one of your wives rule when it benefits you the most.
If you have read any of my books, please leave a review on Goodreads and Amazon.
God bless,
Danny Mac
